At 12:49 23/05/2003 +0200, Tobias Reif wrote:
>I just thought that it would be much more flexible to not insert index
>term markup in the document, at all (at most place a simple reference to
>each index document). If I get a DocBook document and don't like the
>indexing, I have to work my way through the whole document and discard the
>previous work,
That's why indexers are paid good money to do their job.
>or I have to produce a new version of the DocBook document (I don't have
>much experience with DB indexing, so I might be wrong). So I simply like
>the general possibility of separating the document from it's indexes; I
>didn't yet think about technical details.
Seeing my book indexed by a professional, I began to appreciate the work
that went
into doing it. It is, essentially, an additional layer of markup that goes
in on top of
the actual content.
regards DaveP
